NVIDIA Mellanox BF2500 MBF2H516B-EENOT Network Adapter 2-port with 16GB on-board FHHL

NVIDIA Mellanox BF2500 BlueField-2 dual-port 100 Gb/s controller card is the perfect solution for managing backend NVMe storage, All-Flash Arrays (AFA), compute and storage disaggregation, and hyper-converged systems. The BF2500 controller card delivers the highest NVMe-oF target performance, reducing TCO, and increasing ROI. 

By deploying BF2500 controller cards, customers gain the best of all worlds: the advantage of Mellanox’s vast and proven success in RoCE and NVMe-oF deployments combined with high-performance I/O acceleration and networking.

At the heart of the BF2500 is the BlueField-2 Data Processing Unit (DPU), a highly integrated and efficient controller, optimized for NVMe storage systems, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud, and Machine Learning workloads.

With an integrated NVMe-oF offload accelerator, the BF2500 has a superior performance advantage over existing Just-a-Bunch-Of-Flash (JBOF) systems, significantly reducing storage transaction latency, while increasing I/O operations per second (IOPs).

The BF2500 Controller Card is a standard PCIe card that can transform existing JBOF systems into NVMe-oF compliant solutions, simply by plugging the card into the PCIe slot. It supports up to 16 PCIe Gen 4.0 lanes and can enable connectivity for up to 8 SSD drives without the need for an external PCIe switch. The card’s compact form factor allows customers to install multiple BlueField-2 controller cards in a single system to support a larger number of SSDs as well as a high-availability storage architecture

The BF2500 storage controller delivers industry-leading NVMe-oF performance, coupled with advanced built-in hardware storage offloads, including compression/decompression, data deduplication, and signature handover T10-DIF.

The integration of cryptography engines, like AES-XTS data-at-rest encryption and public key acceleration, simplify the implementation of security applications. These enhanced security capabilities reduce the threat of exposure and minimize risk, while enabling real-time prevention, detection, and responses to potential storage threats.

Key Benefits

• Industry-leading application acceleration for the most demanding storage and cloud platform workloads

• Increases ROI by leveraging the NVMe-oF accelerator to maximize performance

• Supports up to 8 NVMe SSDs without requiring an external PCIe switch

• Can be employed as a GPU controller card for Machine Learning systems

• Leading NVMe-oF performance

• Advanced storage accelerations